Normal-appearing cerebral white matter in healthy adults: Mean change over 2 years and individual differences in change

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1834-1848

  Bender, Andrew R ^a   Raz, Naftali ^a,b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Brain; DTI; Longitudinal; Metabolic syndrome; White matter

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANTERIOR COMMISSURE; ARTICLE; AXIAL DIFFUSIVITY; BRAIN REGION; CINGULUM (BRAIN); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC RISK; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROANATOMY; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL DIFFUSIVITY; RISK; VASCULAR RISK; WHITE MATTER; ANISOTROPY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; TIME FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANISOTROPY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; RISK; TIME FACTORS; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84927779267     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: 15581497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2015.02.001     Document Type: Article

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